Luis M. García-Mainar
Associate Professor of Film and American Studies at the University of Zaragoza. My current research interests include film genre theory and contemporary cinema, more specifically the crime film, contemporary social theory and the global/local. At the moment I am working towards a book about transnational crime drama. I have also published on Stanley Kubrick, authorship, Clint Eastwood, and melodrama.
Some of my publications are:
“Space and the Amateur Detective in Contemporary Hollywood Crime Film.” Journal of Film and Video. Vol. 64, no. 3 (Fall 2013). (Forthcoming).
“The Return of the Realist Spy Film.” CineAction. 88 (2012), 12-19.
“Generic Complexity and the Ethics of New Individualism in A Mighty Heart”, in María del Mar Azcona and Celestino Deleyto eds. Generic Attractions: New Essays on Film Genre Criticism. París: Houdiard. 2010. 423-437.
“Contemporary Hollywood Crime Film and the New Individualism.” European Journal of American Studies. Vol. 2009-2 (2009). http://ejas.revues.org/sommaire7622.html
Clint Eastwood: de actor a autor. Barcelona: Paidós. 2006.